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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Susan Sontag

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Blame Evil Identify Need
How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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Pain Photography
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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Beautiful Deep Women
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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Appreciation Beautiful Feeling
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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